Blackhawks Reward Good Goalie With New Deal

Blackhawks sign G Soderblom to 2-yr. extension

The Chicago Blackhawks have signed goaltender Arvid Soderblom to a two-year, $5.5 million extension, the team announced Saturday.

Blackhawks Reward Good Goalie With New Deal

The Chicago Blackhawks have been relatively quiet this offseason.Aside from acquiring Sam Lafferty and Andre Burakovsky, the Blackhawks have mostly signed a few prospects and bought out the contract of TJ Brodie. Arguably, the biggest transaction of their modest offseason has been the extending of Arvid Soderblom.Elliotte Friedman reports that the Blackhawks and Soderblom have avoided arbitration with a new contract. The extension will be a two-…

Blackhawks re-sign goalie Arvid Soderblom to two-year contract

The Blackhawks settled on a new contract with goalie Arvid Soderblom on Saturday, two days prior to his scheduled arbitration hearing.Those hearings can often lead to frayed relationships between teams and players, so it's probably wise that they did. It's what happens most of the time around the league.Soderblom, who had been a restricted free agent, got a two-year contract with a $2.75 million salary-cap hit, a source confirmed to the Sun-Time…

RFA Goalie Gets New Contract and Avoids Arbitration in Process

A restricted free agent goalie has a new deal, thus avoiding salary arbitration. News emerged that Arvid Soderblom has agreed to a new contract extension with the Chicago Blackhawks. This deal is for two years and is for $5.5 million. The agreement has an average salary cap hit of $2.75 million and runs through the end of the 2026-27 season. Chicago and Arvid Soderblom avoid arbitration 2 x $2.75M — Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 26, 202…

The Blackhawks reportedly avoid arbitration by signing Arvid Soderblom to a new contract

A slew of media reports on Saturday morning indicated that the Blackhawks have avoided arbitration with goaltender Arvid Soderblom by agreeing to a two-year contract worth $2.75 million annually. Soderblom, who’ll turn 26 in August, was a restricted free agent following the 2024-25 hockey season, when the Swedish netminder went 10-18-7 with a .898 save percentage and 3.18… Source

Blackhawks, Arvid Söderblom Avoid Arbitration With Two-Year Deal

The Blackhawks and goaltender Arvid Söderblom won’t need the arbitration hearing they had scheduled for Monday. They’ve settled on a two-year deal paying the restricted free agent an average annual value of $2.75MM, the team announced. Söderblom, who turns 26 in August, had set himself up well in contract talks this summer after something of a breakout season in 2024-25. An undrafted free agent signed by Chicago out of the SHL’s Skellefteå AIK i…